It won’t be a smooth sailing for any party in the coming 2017 assembly elections. There would be a multi-cornered fight for the seat. Though the BJP candidate from the Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency, Vinod Kumar Sonkar had won the seat in 2014 by a margin of 42,900 by defeating his nearest SP rival, Shailendra Kumar, the former had trailed behind the latter in the Babaganj assembly segment by 23717 votes.